Candidates Announced for Hannover’s 2018 Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition

The opening-round candidates have been announced for the 2018 Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition - including 4 VC Young Artists

The 32 opening-round candidates have today been announced for the 2018 Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition - to be held in Hannover, Germany from the 11th to 27th of October, 2018.

The 2018 opening-round candidates are:

Open to international violinists aged between 16 to 27 who are ready to embark on an international career, the 1st prize winner will receive €50,000, the three year loan of a Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin, an international CD release – and a number of important international performance opportunities.

The 2018 jury comprises: Salvatore Accardo, Andrej Bielow, Masafumi Hori, Kyung Sun Lee, Silvia Marcovici, Qian Zhou, Ulf Schneider, Vilmos Szabadi and Pavel Vernikov.

Previous 1st prize winners include Antje Weithaas, Frank Huang, Nemanja Radulovic – and VC Artists Alexandra Conunova, Dami Kim and Sergei Dogadin.

PICTURED: 2015 JOSEPH JOACHIM INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION 1ST PRIZE WINNER, VC ARTIST SERGEI DOGADIN FROM RUSSIA